Sentence examples for steeper rents from inspiring English sources

Dawnay Day would ease out its mainly lower-income residents, rehabilitate the apartments and charge a new generation of younger, more affluent tenants substantially steeper rents.

Developers, whose ambitions increasingly defined city skylines, used their emancipation from height limits not for aesthetic enrichment but steeper rents; much as Boyd had prophesied, the architect's role was diminished.

Since its construction in 1947, the complex has offered affordable housing to middle-income renters, but that began changing in recent years as the previous owner, Metropolitan Life, started charging much steeper rents on apartments they could free from rent stabilization.

Should Emel prevail, it can find a new tenant at a steeper rent.

In major cities, many of those who haven't been forced out by soaring prices are living two or three to a room or attempting to camp in empty buildings – of which there are thousands in London, since speculation has continued unabated in the recession, fuelling steeper rent rises.

Steep rents for tiny spaces are the norm in dense cities like New York or San Francisco.

Low interest rates manifest as tall towers, steep rents, vacant storefronts, and long commutes.

The steepest rents are being sought on new larger spaces cropping up on wider streets that border the area.

"Are you aware the shape I'm in?" For generations — long before it became fashionable — Brooklyn has taken in writers fleeing from Manhattan's steep rents and steeper pretensions.

Mr. Schepps said those who cannot afford steep rents will leave Southampton, which will affect his ability to make a living.

Ms. Cacace, who lives in Oxfordshire, more than 90 minutes west of London, because she cannot afford the steep rents of Central London, said she would buy a Microflat if given the chance.